Group photo taken at the EU–Brazil Summit (Lisbon, 4 July 2007)

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On 4 July 2007, on the initiative of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the first European Union–Brazil Summit is held in Lisbon. The group photo taken at the official dinner in Belém shows, in the front row, from left to right: José Sócrates, Portuguese Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the European Council, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, Portuguese President, Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, and José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission. In the second row, from left to right: Luis Filipe Marques Amado, Portuguese Foreign Minister, Celso Luiz Amorim, Brazilian Foreign Minister, Romano Prodi, Italian Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, Netherlands Prime Minister, Janez Janša, Slovenian Prime Minister, Robert Fico, Slovakian Prime Minister, and Peter Mandelson, Member of the European Commission with special responsibility for trade.